Major City
Houston Top Tourist Sites
1.Space Center Houston- to watch space shuttles
2.Six Flags Amusement Park located in Dallas- to
ride rides
3.Texas Ranger Hall of Fame located in Waco- to
see famous rangers
4.Santa Anna Wild Life Refuge located in San
Antonio
5.The Alamo in San Antonio-to see a part of Texas history State Symbols
Bird: Mockingbird Flower:
Blue Bonnet Nickname: Lone Star State Motto:
Freindship Famous or Fun Facts 1.The worlds first coronary bypass surgery was performed in Texas
2.A lizard jumped in a box that was being sealed and thirty-one years later it was in there alive!
3.The college football game "The Alamo Bowl" is named after the Battle of the Alamo and it was in Texas and is played in San Antonio
Geography
Texas is Divided into four major regions the West Gulf Coastal Plain, the Great Plains, the Interior Plains, and the Basin and Range Region. Texas is one of the West South Central States. It lies along the Mississippi River.
Climate In the winter it is warm. Summer days are hot almost anywhere. The eastern region gets more rainfall then the western region.
Houston
Top Tourist Sites
1.Space Center Houston- to watch space shuttles
2.Six Flags Amusement Park located in Dallas- to
ride rides
3.Texas Ranger Hall of Fame located in Waco- to
see famous rangers
4.Santa Anna Wild Life Refuge located in San
Antonio
5.The Alamo in San Antonio-to see a part of Texas history
State Symbols
Bird:
Mockingbird
Flower:
Blue Bonnet
Nickname:
Lone Star State
Motto:
Freindship
Famous or Fun Facts
1.The worlds first coronary bypass surgery was performed in Texas
2.A lizard jumped in a box that was being sealed and thirty-one years later it was in there alive!
3.The college football game "The Alamo Bowl" is named after the Battle of the Alamo and it was in Texas and is played in San Antonio
Geography
Texas is Divided into four major regions the West Gulf Coastal Plain, the Great Plains, the Interior Plains, and the Basin and Range Region. Texas is one of the West South Central States. It lies along the Mississippi River.
Climate
In the winter it is warm. Summer days are hot almost anywhere. The eastern region gets more rainfall then the western region.